I have been trying to compile Ogre [1] as external dependency with
ExternalProject_Add(). In theory this should be straightforward since Ogre
itself also uses CMake as buildsystem. However, in the process I
encountered the following problem:
Ogre checks the value of the CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX variable in some
places (e.g. [2]). I am running Linux and compiling with g++ and everything
works fine if I manually configure Ogre with cmake or cmake-gui.
Unfortunately, after wrapping everything inside ExternalProject_Add(), the
CMAK_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX variable is no longer being set correctly.
A simple workaround is to manually set this variable, i.e.:
ExternalProject_Add(
ogre
URL https://bitbucket.org/sinbad/ogre/get/v1-9-0.zip
CMAKE_ARGS
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${DEPENDENCIES_OUTPUT_DIR}
-DCMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX=${CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX} # workaround
)
This works, but I'm uncertain if this should be necessary. Is this a bug or
a feature?
[1] https://bitbucket.org/sinbad/ogre
[2]
https://bitbucket.org/sinbad/ogre/src/0d580c7216abe27fafe41cb43e31d8ed86ded591/CMake/Utils/OgreConfigTargets.cmake?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default#OgreConfigTargets.cmake-277
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